“If it’s not fun, it’s not worth doing” –Wharton Esherick
The Wharton Esherick Museum celebrates and preserves the legacy of American artist Wharton Esherick, who worked primarily in wood to create furniture, furnishings, utensils, interiors, buildings and more.
A National Historic Landmark for Architecture, his hilltop studio/residence, with more than 300 of his works on exhibition, has been preserved much as it was when the artist lived and worked there.
We invite you to visit the Museum through a guided experience for which reservations are required.
“A complete expression of one man’s intensely personal fusion of fine craftsmanship with the wild flights of the imagination.”
“Fun, neat, creative, colorful, comfortable, smooth, flowing, exciting, cool, twisty, wavy, and extraordinary.”
THE 2018 CHALLENGE
The 25th Annual Wharton Esherick Woodworking Competition
To celebrate 25 years of the woodworking competition, we are revisiting the challenge of the stool. While Wharton may have considered his three-legged stools “bread and butter” pieces, highly affordable at $25 each, each one is a unique work of functional art, and therein lies your challenge for 2018.
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